Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Then stars arise, and the night is holy.

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Thou shalt learn The wisdom early to discern True beauty in utility.

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How can I tell the signals and the signs By which one heart another heart divines? How can I tell the many thousand ways By which it keeps the secret it betrays?

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Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed; Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, Life's golden fruit is shed.

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Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.

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Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

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Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

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The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary.

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Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

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O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away?

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The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven.

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Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended! There from the flowing bowl Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal! to the Northland! skoal! Thus the tale ended.

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The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.

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As great Pythagoras of yore, Standing beside the blacksmith's door, And hearing the hammers, as they smote The anvils with a different note, Stole from the varying tones, that hung Vibrant on every iron tongue, The secret of the sounding wire. And formed the seven-chorded lyre.

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Nothing that is can pause or stay.

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Learn to labour and to wait.

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Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

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In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

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Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks to us and we wait In singleness of heart that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will and do that only

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Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere

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